CMBM News
Chun-Yu Ke appointed as Assistant Professor at NTU
Prof. Chun-Yu Ke, who graduated from Prof. Kammer’s research group at Cornell University, has started as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Taiwan University (NTU). His research will focus on earthquake mechanics with laboratory experiments and numerical simulations.
Breaking the Speed Limit: Cracks Can Travel Faster than Expected
Our work on supershear propagation of tensile cracks got recently published in Physical Review Letters. Our simulations shed light on how geometric non-linearities allow cracks to propagate faster than predicted limits.
Earthquake community paper published in Nature Communications
In this Perspective paper, we bring together a group of researchers with diverse expertise to discuss the challenges associated with our current understanding of the mechanics of earthquakes. We outline open scientific questions and describe how collaborative research across disciplines is needed to address these questions.
3rd Material Strength & Durability Symposium
On 24. May 2024, we organized the third edition of the MaP Material Strength & Durability Symposium at ETH Zurich. The five keynote lectures by world-renowned speakers covered a wide range of topics including origami, corrosion, fracture, and machine learning. The attending PhD students of the MaP doctoral school participated in lively discussions and enjoyed a classy dinner with the speakers.
Paper on Machine Learning for Mechanics published in Nature Communications
Our work on a novel probabilistic approach for inferring heterogeneous interactions between interactive entities was recently published in Nature Communications.